Glockenspiel Hero:ABQGOD: Toquinha: He took way more than 15 seconds to map out the first few movements, plus they used a sticker-less Dayan cube, which is illegal under official World Cube Association regulations (I am not making this up).

He should have used multiple cameras to capture all of the sides at once, and placed those cameras inside the solving box or even on the turning rods. Also, there's really nothing special about a rubik solving program anymore. Build a robot that simulates human hand structures and can manipulate a real cube with all it's creaky joints and friction, and I'll be slightly impressed.

Humans have 15 seconds to inspect the cube before moving the pieces in tournaments. That seems like a fair rule for a robot as well: there's no reason at all you can't use multiple cameras (or spin the cube automatically) and generate the solution in under that time. Hell, a guy built a lego robot that can do the entire process in about five seconds